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Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
A Well Shaped Woman.

Art should always be based on nature, and
no art is true which does not take nature for
it's model. Aperfect, symmetrical, healthy
woman of five feet ten inches in height must
comply with the following standard: She
should be 1873 pounds at the least, and could
stand up to ten pounds more without injury
to health or artistic perfection. Tho distance
between the tips Of her two middle fingers,
when the arms are extended, should be ex-
actly the same as the height, or ten times the
length of her hand, or seven and half times
the length of her foot, or five times the
diameter of her chest from one armpit to the
other. The distance from the junction of
the thighs to the ground should be the same
as from the former point to the top OF the
head. The knee should be exactly midway
from tho junction of the thighs to the bottom
of the heel.
The distance from tho elbow to the tip of
the middle finger should be tho same as from
tho elbow to the middle line of the chest.
Froia the top OF tho head to the chin, with
tho head posed naturally, siion!d be tho same
az from the leyel-of the chin TO the armpits,
or from the heel TO the tip Of tho large toa
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02

David Hostetter, Of Pittsburg, Pa, who has
made vast fortune in the manufacture of
bitters, is a man about 70 years of age.
Physically he is insignificant. He is not
much over five feet in height and of very
slender build. His hair is white and he wears
q gray mustache. He has large family.
His eldest son, who was threatened with con.
sumption, is now in California and is in
much better health than when he left Pitts.
burg. Mr.. Hostetter,s wealth is estimated at
between s5,0OO,O00 and $6,OOO,OOO There
was time when he peddled his medicines ON
foot.-New York World.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
Lire IN TIE PENlTENTIARy.

a Correspondents Reflections After .
Visit to the Inmates of Sing Sing.
Think what it is to enter those walls and
face that clock, whose slow pendulum shall
beat out-not seconds, minutes, hours, days,
weeks or months-but years Of your precious
youth and manhood before you again see the
world which has discarded you! Think Of
the unrelieved round Of toll, succeeded by
the solitary cell and miserable hours of think
ing what might have been and what isl How
slow the hours to him without hope, without
profit in his bitter toll, without comfort in
his solitude, without honor, without respect,
without ibertyl How slow the days make
the week, and the weeks the month, where
each is drearily the same, season in and
season out, till the doleful year is told!
To be the companion of the vilest, cheek by
jowl; to wear the garb Of infamy; to be
driven from the cell to labor, and from the
labor to the cell; to see on all sides the high
walls and the redoubts, where gleam the
rifles ready to kill the insurgent; to know
that however skillfully the escape is planned,
however bravely executed, there are keen
scented and lynx eyed pursuers to track and
the strong arm of the law to recover; to feel
that by no power can relief come until the
long ulsuanG day appointed, save the power
which can bless an unhappy life by ending it.
What a record of hopelessness, of despair,
remorse and gnawing misery the pitiless stone
of those cells could tell Small wonder that
after years Of confinement every kindly trait
of nature is withered, root and branch, and
only sullen desperation and hatred of society
remain.
Look at their faces to read their story. Not
one in a hundred not the face of shame, Of
unhappiness, of stolid resignation to inevita-
BILE privation and disgrace. See that long
line of gray misery marching to it's MONDAY
meal-a human centipede-a hundred locked
together-shuffle, shuttle, shuttle, shuffle-the
very step is degradation. Slowly they file
into the cherries room, and in silence and
with bowed head each sits to devour his por-
tion. Not word, not whisper, all wants
expressed by signs. Long lines of keepers,
each coldly and keenly watchful, each ready
with pistol to suppress the slightest token Of
revolt, for this is the time of danger in a
state prison. The meal is soon over. At a
beckon they arise and lock together-shuffle,
shuttle, shuttle, shuffle-back to labor again.
Henry Guy Carleton in New York World.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
BIsMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY DEC 3. 1887

The bust Of a woman ct the height named
should be forty three inches measurement
over the arms, and the waist twenty four.
The upper part of the arm should be from
thirteen and q half to fourteen inches, and
the wrist six inches. The ankle should be six
inches, the calf of the leg fourteen and the
thigh twenty five Any woman of the height
mentioned who has these measurements can
congratulate herself on having as perfect
form as the Creator ever made OF course
the proportions vary with the height New
York Mercury
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
Dress as q Recreation.

If it were not for clothes great part of
the world would have nothing to do and
nothing to think about. Clothes are to some
what books and pictures and brio a brac,
music, poetry and conversation are to others.
They take the place Of metaphysics, astrono-
my and psychological research Possibly it
may require as much thought to plan a re-
ception gown as to calculate an eclipse, espe-
cially when the purse is slender; to imagine
new shape for a bonnet, new drapery, a
new trimming, as to invent philosophical
solution of the universe or to compose a sym-
phony; but the mind is more enlarged and
enriched by one than the other We do not
exactly want to live for clothes, to satisfy
our souls with such material things, although
many are apparently content to give all their
leisure and thoughts to them, and are no
sooner off with the old clothes than they are
on with the new. They always have dress
maker in the house and shopping on hand.
Their literature is fashion reports. They
have no interests to speak of apart from this
frivolous pursuit, or none SO great, SO absorb.
ing. Happiness for such people consists in a
wardrobe where no omission can be detected.
But let it not be supposed that this adora-
ton OF clothes is a peculiarly feminine trait,
although many believe so. Are not fop and
coxcomb both in the masculine gender, and
is there any feminine synonym for thems
Of course it may be urged that men have
nobler occupations which consume their time,
that their minds are not SO narrow as to be
agitated by the shape of collar, but this is
perhaps only an argument in favor of the
higher education of women. If their minds
were as elegantly and suitably furnished as
those of their brothers, would they not have
something more interesting to devote them
selves to?
Dress is a kind of recreation, like poetry or
music, not the absorbing interest Of life
time, although one might suspect quite the
reverse. Too profound attention to it is de-
bilitating to the mortal fiber; like some poi
cons, it has a cumulative effect; one cannot
trife with it or it asserts itself, and becomes
an intoxication in one case, fetch in an
other. 1t is always pleasure to see well
dressed people; gown that fits badly, colors
i'll assorted, tawdriness, depress one like bad
drawing, like ''sweet bells jangling out Of
tune;;" but those who put their soul into their
clothes, into the hang of skirt or the set of
a sleeve, have generally very little else to
recommend them, and one soon exhausts
their resources. IA sweet disorder in the
dress" may be advised for artistic effect; it
relieves primness and gives touch of
piquancy to toilet; but the disorder must
not lapse into disease; one is not more GER
tainly born with a genius for music, for lit
erature or art, than another is born with a
taste for dress, knows what to wear and how
to wear it.--Harper's Bazar.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02

Montreal trade men have received cable
gram from Russia asking for particulars con-
corning the Canadian crop of apples. If
Russia becomesa buyer Of apples in that mar
ket it is evident that the varieties she win re-
quire must be the best long keepers obtain
able, as the journey will be a long one. Rus
sets, Baldwins and Spitz would probably be
among the best descriptions for export to
Russia Boston Budget
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
A Peculiar LIQUOR. Law.

Rockdale county, Ga, has rather strin-
gent and peculiar liquor law. But one per-
sou In the county IL permitted to sell liquor:
he 10 appointed by the grand jury, can sell
for medicinal purposes only and cannot kesp
on hand more than ten gallons of spirits.--
New Work Sun.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
THE CLOSED aENTlAN.

What shall I say Of thee,
Flower all elusive, guarding alike from the rain
q and the sun .s a 5$ 55E $s5:
The mystical heart Of thyself-
What shall say OF thees
Hast thou some foe thou wouldst shuns
Art thou shrine-the saint OF the shrine-the
pale pilgrim seekers
Or else to the bee and bold elf
Knowing the way of thee. @
Art thou chamber for feasting and revel, and
do they p,lrvey Of thee ra#.> Z
Honey, and wine in a beakers
Edith M. Thomas In American Magazine
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
Coeducation Of the Sexes.

1t Is not generally known that the coeduca.
tion OF the sexes is carried on without restric.
tions In the University of Texas. Young men
and young women arc Omitted to the same
Glasses In every department and are eligible
to degrees and honors without exceptions
New York Evening World.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
A Needed PrOvisO.

Omaha Man-So you are from Kansas, ehi
Stranger-No; from Missouri I am from
Kansas City, Mo.
"Of course, forgot. Your friend is from
Michigan, believef"
"No; from Indiana; Michigan City, Ind.
We are both going to Kansas to found new
town; but we need more capital"
swell, I'll 60 with you II you'll promise
not to call 1t Massachusetts, City, KAN
Omaha World,
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
Force of Heat rnd Cold.

The amount Of force exerted by heat and
cold In expansion and contraction Of metal
s equal to that which Hoi,ld be required to
stretch or compress it Ia the same extent by
mechanical meai.s. ..
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
Cutting California In Two.

A scheme is ON foot to make two states out
of California, the lower half to he called Cor
onado. The new state could begin life with
a population Of 10000, property valuation
Of $100, 100000. and 37OO0 square miles Of
territory.-Chicago News.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02

Many English dukes and lords are selling
their estates for song. In very few yeass
American railway kings viii be tho landlords
Of Britain.
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02
"seform Clothing" for Women.

The movement In the direction OF what Il
called "reform clothing" for women Is eer-
tainiy progressing. had occasion TO VISIT
shop where womens wear Is sold and was
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02

negroes who were born subjects Of tho British
Grove, fS
Bismarck weekly tribune., 1887-12-02


you submit this is all you will get of the first
dish. If you are an Independent person YOU
will demand a second portion of the dish.
They yield without remonstrance. Then
when you come for the second part of the
breakfast you get a little piece about two or
three inches II you tell the man to take
that back and bring you something reason
able to eat he will obey like a calf If you
submit you will get no more for breakfast
At the Langham hotel you ring bell for
something in the way of Refreshments; some
times q man will come in and sometimes he
will not. You wonder where the center Of
these houses is; who conducts them; who is
responsible for them AS far as the chamber
maids and labor element go they are very
well attended to, but il you 60 to the main
office you are kept in a state of apprehension,
wondering whether you have right to ask
for anything or not. On my way to London
stopped at Brighton for almost week.
Every day took my sea bath. Every night
slept under sheet. In the course Of three
or four days I was afflicted with strange
kind of diarrhea. / had never felt anything
of the kind before; there was slight pain in
the middle of my stomach, attended with
cracking pains toward the side OF my
stomach. went to the hotel proprietor and
asked where the water came from whicl, fed
Brighton. He said, with great politeness.
that it was the finest water In Great Britain
One morning the main waiter in the hotel re-
marked to me: ''Sir, you had better so to
London. The yea air seldom agrees with
strangers. With many strangers 1t disagrees
very much. You will never be any better sa
long as you stay here" So Iwenton to Lon
don, and in ii few hours was completely re
stored TO health. London Letter.
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American Pcarlv,

George E. King in Harper's Magazine.
Pearls are produced In some Of the unios tfresh-
water mussels). especially those found In the fresh
water brooks traverstng q limestone country. The
first pearl Of any note was the famous ''crown
pearl, found by shoemaker. Daniel Howell, while
collecting some Of these mu sells In Notch Brook,
near Paterson, n. J. This was purchased by
Messrs TIFFANY Co for 81, 500 In 1856. and led 10
the great pearl excitement. Millions OF unios
were collected, and many thousands OF pearls
were found, and some OF them very nne ones. one,
however, which weighed nearly 400 grains, and
would perhaps have been the finest pearl OF
modern times was destroyed by cooking the mus
sci. They have since then been flshed out as Tar
west as Ohio. At waynesvtlle and other places
on on It the ,o Little Miami River many nns pearls
have been found In Kentucky, Tennessee and
Texas. One single 1rm has purchased over
100000 worth Of pearls found east Of Texas The
oolong, button-shaped- nat on the back, and imi-
tating every conceivable FORM such as beetles
feature assisted in the mounting Of enamel
and gold, after the manner or Dinglinger
pearls at the famous Dresden Green Vaults
Inc color Is rarely q true white, usually pink or
blush, often irdescent. The nacre is smoother. IL
anything, than in the oriental pearls, and they
sold for over g. oOO Only one pearl OF any kind is
found In a hundred shells, and usually one In q
thousand OF any value, so that IL Is not very
Ing on OF the mussels in fishing and by
poisonous sewage will eventually lead to
tnelr determination. The greatest destroyers,
however, are the hogs, which Kill on whole banks
at single low tide. Pearls are also secreted by
the common hard-shell clans Venus mercendrid);
these are usually white, tinged with purple, or
almost black. The latter colors are preferred,
although they have little value They sell at
from 81 to 500 each, and are found as large as a
nshed extensively On the Florida coast for bait,
often contains the so-caled pink pearls Although
they are not true pearls, they have sold at $1,000
beauty.
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from the t1tteDur8 Dlspetc0.
Mrs. Sarah A. Bonner, daughter OF the Rev. L
q. Bonner, Of the German Baptist church, died
yesterday Of typhoid fever. She was q fervent
believer in faith cure, and all through
her sickness which lasted for about two
weeks she persistently refused TO see a physi-
clan. A Dispatch reporter asked her father last
nj yht II IL was true that Miss Bonner believed In
divine healing. He said: "Yes, my daughter and
myself have Tor years been staunch believers In the
doc rfnes OF faith cure She has been sick for two
weeks and no doctor has seen her during all her
illness She asked US TO pray for her, and her cure
would surely De enec1eI As am O believer my.
self I, Of course, thou - too"
"How long has you Ae tier been believer In
faith cure?"
ssFor many years sne was q very pious 9TH
and devoted great ! OF time TO religious study.
She was several ulles very ILL., and nothing but
prayer did We es r. use as Q medicine, and success
July :oo." Wien Miss Bonner died yesterday
afternoon, the reverend gentleman at nrst did not
want 70 believe II. Several members OF the
church, however, came around afterward, and on
noticing that the young Lady was really dead
said that Q physician would have TO be asked
to write Q certificate OF death before she could
be buried This fact had never dawned on Mr..
Bonner before. somebody made the suggestion
that the coroner should De called. but 6 that
would have led to an Investigation OF the case
eral members OF the church went then 10 Dr..
Isaac w. Riggs and asked him 70 examine The
body OF the dead young lady and write q certtn-
cate Of death. The physician, AFTER having made
an examination wrote out the certificate with the
following remark: "Died OF typhoid fever. De.
ceased had no medical attendance previous 70
death. Believers In the divine healing"
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In recent Journal or Commerce article Dr.
William c. Prime treats, from personal knowledge
OF the cooking OF many lands Coming TO his own
country he denounces the professional cooks and
lecturers on the art; and Loyalty ignoring the not
unfounded charge OF dyspepsla-producing often
Drought against IL. thus unquailiiedly praises the
New England housewife cooking:
"The best cooks in the world, me j,.dicp are the
Arab COOKS, who perfectly understand how TO In
troduce good fruit 10 hot fire their little fur.
naces. The next best, as a class (and / challenge
contradiction from any man or woman OF expe-
rience which authorizes Judgment), are the farm
erS wives OF New England They need no mis-
sionarieS or lecturers 10 teach them COOKING Meats
fruits, vegetables, In their Kitchens are married to
hre. without losing the characteristics OF their
birth and growth TO ripe age. Mrs Blank vino
cooks the meals for her family OF four strong sons
and two healthy, hearty daughters, cannot make
partriige pie out OF veal and chicken bones, but
she can brol and serve the partrdges as they were
never broied at Vefours, and give you a veal or a
chicken pot-pie which, unless your taste has been
vitfated by sO-called French cooking, will satisfy
your highest Sastronomc desires. America sur
passes All parts OF the world In the abundance and
excellence OF Its meats, fish, game vegetables and
fruits, and defy mention OF any country In the
world where the native population, from house to
house, have as good cooking.
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Tn Oxrr Rrxr0r
CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON.

Mr.. d. b. Adkrns Union. South Carolina
writes; i was AFFECTED with terrible osss a
blood poison for shout thirteen month"; vs
treated by the best phy sicisns. and used various
kinds OF remedies hut received no substantial
relief l finally tried the swim Specific. and
about four bottles cured me sound and we'll"
CO.. r. II, Kie.er. editor ana propristor Of the
orelikA Ala, 7ames under date Of August
through indiscrvtion. I cunlr.c,ed a disease
which has stuck 60 me for y-srs. some ave OF
san year. since VA: troubled VIII pans, 90 :.
% make it d facult for me 20 walk HAVING cd
yeArs concluded would Try Il . ses q thery
using Il sSSordins 70 diree1ons and used half
dozen hotties wss once at way ssAton and
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years Of Are ana ieel now iife . young man
and can 50 90 the case when necessary and SET
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Mr. r. woehl. 2ll North Avenus Chicsr1
under date Of June l2. 1887. writes II deem
4 my duty Go thank You for the cure r-csiyed
very severe case OF blood poisoning about two
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suaded me % buy preEarrtion of b. own
which he said was SURE cure i used sin bot.
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met = friend who told me that your medicine
again and demanded your nedicine. lie re.
luctantly sold me twelve bottles. and am nov
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DR.. J. n Cheney. prominent physician. ~
siding in EnAyille. schley County. 6eoreiA in
an curing contasriOus blood poison css-s IN his
extensive practice. writes: Those who know
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The ssMud,s Store.

From the Shoe and Leather Reporter
"rhe Mud store" Is q term applied to q retail
shoe store In Western town. The enterprising
proprietor OF this place hit upon the scheme Of
buy nc large stock OF cheap goods, loading them
In loose pile In team, besmearing part OF the
lot WITH mud, and then having them exhibited all
over the town as damaged goods that must be-
soid at any price. The idea was profitable for a
time, and people swarmed TO the store to get
something for almost nothing, as they THOUGHT.
After time buyers found That they were the
victims OF humoug. The "Mud Storen suddenly
closed up, TO the relief Of honest dealers.
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The Matter Of Visiting Cards.

IHttrVleW VIII 81 LOul8 Indy.
Nothing so easily lowers the social status OF q
woman whose position Is already assured as q
cheap visiting card. 1t Is fact that card enters
into the social economy Of every woman, and when
lady receives one from visitor tt indicates to
certain extent what degree OF refinement she has
reached. Every house has its card basket, and
ladies' have peculiar way OF looking over the
In truth, IL = natural TO do So for try yourself on
your own card basket and see II you do not BE-
come critical have had one or Two cases where
caller handed in printed card, and 1t came as a
shock. Such u thing has long gone out OF date
ana printed card would be the height OF impro-
pretty. Again, n received a large card would
consider II improper The greatest care should be
exercised by ladies In the selection Of visiting
letter press is allowed Again, q lady always puts
MIS- or Miss on her card, and it Is now the proper
thing Tor gentlemen to put Mr.. on their cards
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Excenf One.

From the London Illustrated Newa
The Moors have their own notions OF diplomatic
honor, though ''honor," understand, is q word
they have not got In their dictionary. The grand
vfxiers consider that every ambassador has his
price, and once upon Q time grand vizier went
to the minister Of foreign power and offered him
10000 70 drop Q certain question. Insulted az
being offered Q bnoe, the ambassador broke
out IN strong language, as was his habit, and 50
astonfshed the grand vtxier that the latter ex-
claimed: "But n IL IL not enough we can make IL
more As the ambassador become inarticulate,
and showed strong symptoms OF having an apo
plect1c nj, the grand vizier saw that he had made
mistake and apologized. saying:
but all your colleagues have taken IT.
OF them would do so.r
Moor.
"Au OF them.-
"All, except one"